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The New Statistics: Estimation for better research
Understanding the New Statistics by Geoff Cumming
The book
Cumming, G. (2012). Understanding TheNew Statistics: Effect Sizes, ConfidenceIntervals, and Meta-Analysis. New York: Routledge
Explains estimation, with many examples.
Designed for any discipline that uses statistical significance testing.
For advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.
Comes with free ESCI software.
May be the first evidence-based statistics textbook.
Assumes only prior completion of any intro statistics course.
See the dance of the confidence intervals, and many other intriguing things.
The New Statistics: Estimation for better research
- Explains estimation, with many examples.
- Designed for any discipline that uses statistical significance testing.
- For advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.
- Comes with free ESCI software.
- May be the first evidence-based statistics textbook.
- Assumes only prior completion of any intro statistics course.
- See the dance of the confidence intervals, and many other intriguing things.
The main message of the book is summarised in this short magazine article, and in this radio talk (transcript and podcast). You can download the book's Preface, Contents, and a sample chapter. There is further information about the book available from the publisher, and a Users’ Guide [PDF 114KB] that explains how to get the best out of the book.